The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-31
The Awards in Detail.

At $3.50 P. NJ the judges from the grand stand.
announced the following list of prizes and order
Of excellence of competing companies and COM
mands:
Regments-First Regiment of Virginia, sole
competitor. prize. a magnificent stand of colors,
with gold, silver and bronze medals to the Off
GERS.
Observation-Disclosures Light Infantry, first
prize, $4,000; Louisville Legion, of Kentucky,
second prize 81, 500; Fifth Rhode Island, third.
Infantry Com panies-Lomax Rifles, Company
B. First Alabama. first prize, s.. 600: Company
D, First Minnesota, second prize s., 800; Belknap
Rifles Company B, Third Texas, third prize,
81, 500; National Rifles. Washington. D. c.,
fourth prize, ST.. 900; San Antonio Rifles. Texas,
fifth prize; $780, Indianapolis Ligh. Infantry,
Light Infantry, Company B, eighth; Vcksburg
Volunteer Southerns. ninth; Company A, Fifth
Rhode Islard, tenth; Museatine Rifles,
Sheridan Guards. New Hampshire, thir-
teenth Walker Light Guards, Com
pany B, First Virginia fourteenth:
Custer Guards Second Michigan. fifteenth: Fort
Wayne Rifles Second Indiana, sixteenth; Woos-
ter City Guards, Eighth Ohio, seventeenth:
Jackson Rifles. First Michigan, eighteenth;
First Virginia, twentieth Nealey Rifles. First
Maine, twenty-frst; Company C., First Bat
talon New Jersey, twenty second; Company Il,
First Minnesota twentythird; Molineux Rifles,
Company d, Thirty-second New York., twenty
fourth; Company A. Washington Cadet Corps,
twenty-ffth; Eighth Separate Company. Roch
n. H.,
Virginia twenty-seventh; State Guard, Vlr-
ginia, twenty-eighth; Company A. First Nir-
einia twenty ninth; Company c, Second Con-
necticCt, thirtleth.
LIGHT Artillery-Battery B, Indianapolis Light
Artillery first prize, 81. 800; Milwaukee Light
Artillery second prize 81. 900.
Machine Guns-Cincinnati Battery, first prize,
silver trophy and $3.50; Battery A, Louisville
Legion second prize, 800
Zouaves -Chcago ZoU3ves first prize, 81, 600;
Memphis Merchants Zouaves. second prize,
$3.50: third, Keck Zouaves
Cadet Corps-First, Michigan Military Acad-
emy Cadets, ST.. 900: second. Maryland Agricult-
ural College Cadets. $3.50; third Bethel Academy
CADETS: fourth. Peekskill Academy Cadets fifth
Cayuga Lake Cadets; sixth, St Johns Academy
Cadets.
Individual DrIl-Private HI. G. Stack. San
Antonio Rifles. first prize. gold medal and 800;
FIRST Sergeant Charles F. Conrad. Company Il,
Washington Light Infantry, second prize. silver
medal and $75; First Sergeant j. r. Wagner
Company A. Louisville Legion tnlrd prize
bronze medal and $40
AS soon rs the prizes were awarded. the va
rious companies gave brief exhibition drills, and
as o'clock approached they formed In regular
lines for the final dress parade. The troops were
| quickly inspected. and the order, company.
right wheel by fours," soon left the green lawns
without single soldier, and the national drill
had come to an end
From a military view point the drill may be
called a success but this can hardly be said of
the venture financially
The last and closing exhibition of the pyrorama
of the historic naval engagement between the
Monitor and the Merrimac witnessed to-
night by fifteen thousand people